Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Losing Your Freedom One Little’ Battle At a Time

When they
lose big national battles…they start guerilla warfare in the streets of your
town. Who are “they”? Read on and find out…

By
de Andréa

April
2, 2014

That old lesson has ‘not been’ lost on the Nazi anti-American players
behind the gun control movement. Having lost big battles on the national stage,
they are now taking their small stealthy battles to sympathetic states and
small towns in an effort to pass any possible anti-Second Amendment civil
rights illegal infringements they can get away with, all in the name
of safety eventually making the populous unsafe and more importantly --
oppressed.

Nowhere is the battle raging hotter
than in California

This may be all thanks to a previously uncontestedwatering-down of the preemption statute
in California, (now you will reap what happens when you say nothing and do
nothing) San Francisco’s history as an illegal gun ban test pilot, big money PR
campaigns, and self-promoting criminal politicians such as California state Senator Leland Yee recently
indicted for gun running to the enemy,and using the issue to build name recognition to help them win
elections. California is easy prey for
the Nazi anti-American criminal tyrants.

They’ve
lost the big battle, so now they snipe

For now at least, the anti-gun movement has had major setbacks on
the national stage. Starting in the year 2000 – when many anti-gun politicians
were voted out of office – gun control has become an almost forbidden topic on
Capitol Hill. Then in 2008 the Supreme Court reaffirmed that the Second Amendment
protected an individual right to own guns in the Heller decision. Two years later the
Supreme Court confirmed that the right was enforced against states and cities.
All the while guns have become more popular and more available. Gun stores joke
that Obama is the gun salesman of the year. More states allow for concealed
public carry. Shooting ranges are packed. Women are jumping into gun toting in
record numbers. And you can’t knock the passionate Country Western singer Ted
Nugent off the television screen.

But the gun ban lobby has an ideological plan, big money, PR
savvy, and twisted allies. They will never stop. But they do adapt their
strategy and tactics in this fight for cultural supremacy.

They pick little battles they can win

In California in particular, the battlefield has once again moved
to cities, where passing laws is more a matter of art and local influence than
sophisticated political warfare. The modus operandi is simple: find
cities with anti-gun council members (even better if they are trying to build
name recognition for a run for higher office), add left-leaning constituents,
and craft inane but sympathetic sounding laws that appeal to emotions and
create untested infringements on your Second Amendment rights. Then lawyer-up
for the inevitable NRA legal challenge, and meanwhile try to spread the laws
like butter over every other possible city (or state). Including yours.

The anti-Constitutional Supreme Court

It is a sound and dangerous strategy. And they have used it before
in California. Knowing they have no chance of national success, the gun control
movement is creating test beds at state, county and local levels. Their hopeful
build-a-critical-mass legal strategy is legally “justified” based in part on
the commentary contained in a footnote in the Supreme Court’s Heller
decision concerning the right to keep arms, namely where the majority wrongly
suggested that not all regulation of arms was prohibited (even though the Constitution says it is)leaving the door wide open for
the incremental erosion of our freedom. Gun control
money is now backing a barrage of new laws in every viable jurisdiction in
order to find something … anything … that will stick. And Heller’s
footnote number 26 is the centerpiece of their legal justification (“26:
We identify these presumptively
lawful regulatory measures only as examples; our list does not purport to be
exhaustive.”) The Supreme does
what is politically correct rather than what is legally correct.

This creates a number of horrible problems for fans of a Free
America in the future.

Test beds breed ugly children:

Something may stick. Some law in some backward berg or overrun
battleground state may be permitted by some future (Obama packed
anti-Constitutional) Supreme Court. It may be an extra capacity magazine
possession ban. It may be a waiting period. It may concern so called ugly “assault
weapons,” or “high capacity” magazines, or “offensive ammunition” like Homeland
Security is buying up by the ton to be used against us, or whatever gun or gun
part they wish to demonize and ban. They know that once they start the process
of banning “Saturday Night Specials,” then all they have to do is demonize
and ban “Friday Night Specials.” Then “Thursday Night Specials,”
etc. At the end of the week, there’s nothing left and we ignorantly look back
and wonder what happened to our freedom and when did it happen.

But it’s not a “ban.” It’s just a “common
sense” “regulation.” RIGHT?

Bottom line: your rights are only as secure as the prejudices of
five judges who now make the law.

Unequal rights … depending on where you live:

Litigation often moves slower than glaciers flow. Even if
eventually victorious, there will be periods of time when people in one
jurisdiction suffer under these crazy and ineffective laws. If you live in a
bluish federal court district, your rights could be infringed for years (for
example, the recently wrapped-up Nordyke case was in play since
the turn of the century) more than a decade. (Nordyke is a gun show promoter in
Alameda County California)

Litigation drain:

Defending your rights in court isn’t cheap (a sadly congenital
problem with the American judicial system). By passing a variation of laws at
the lowest levels over many jurisdictions, and often having taxpayers at the
local level pay to defend these anti-freedom, anti-Constitutional,
anti-American laws, the gun control movement is trying to extract a financial
toll on everybody except themselves, you pay for your defense, you pay for
their offence, you pay, pay, pay.

The Pit
of Hell is in San Francisco

This assault on your rights comes largely from the Law Center to
Prevent Gun Violence (LCPGV, formerly the Legal Community Against Gun Violence).
Born from a lunatic shooting by a deranged and disgruntled ex-client at an
office building housing a prestigious law firm, this organization has morphed from being
an anti-gun activist group into a two-headed monster: one head pushes and
defends anti-gun laws, and the other breathes propaganda fire. With deep pockets and
by mating with strange bedfellows, this organization is the gun ban movement’s defacto law firm.

The LCPGV started pushing local gun control in the early 90s. Then
they expanded into state efforts when the criminal democrats like Yee took over
in Sacramento. Then they expanded nationally. Lately they’ve gone back to their
roots, spearheading recent California city gun ban ordinances including the “Sunnyvale
Measure C initiative”. This package of laws has inflicted magazine
capacity bans, redundant locked storage laws, ammo sales control, bureaucratic
recordkeeping overkill, and ambiguous loss/theft reporting mandates. Oddly this
local measure passed in California, where the state has some preemption powers
as far as gun control is concerned. But that is the danger of their efforts –
like unruly children they are testing every aspect of every possible
prohibition. Some judges may decide that a magazine ban is just a regular law,not a “gun control”
infringement per se, or that the requirement to report a stolen firearm
(even if you are unaware it is missing) is constitutional. Which pulls into question do Judges even know
the Constitution? Since there are no gun
regulations at all that are constitutional.
Remember according to the Constitution, the “Right Shall Not Be Infringed”
in any way.

Let’s ignore for the moment that none of the laws authored by the
LCAGV and its partners in crime over the years have had any effect on the
largest segment of gun deaths (suicides, 61%) or the second largest segment
(felonious homicides, mainly street gang and drug related, 35%). What is most
troubling is the very nature of the LCAGV’s perspective on the role of
government, freedom, and the individual citizen.

At a recent LCAGV event, they shared the stage with elder legal
warriors from the anti-smoking and drunk driving PR and legal campaigns –
movements that achieved legislative and judicial success. When the subject of
the Second Amendment and basic freedoms came up, one of the LCAGV panelists
said “Freedom...that’s the scallywags’ argument.”So, according to the
dictionary, the LCAGV thinks that if you believe in freedom of any kind or
especially to choose to own a gun to defend yourself and your family, you are a
“disreputable
despicable fellow”, a “scamp” “a scallywag” or a “rascal.”

Actually we should be pleased with the label, considering that its
most recent incarnation was for “White a Southerner who supported … Black
emancipation.”

Freedom for scallywags indeed.

THE BOTTOM LINE: So what should be our Objectives? Litigate - educate - procreate. First, we should fight back in court no
matter how much the Judges look like Kangaroos. Unlike the scattershot mode of
the gun control movement, (and even some groups on our side) we should
carefully pick our fights to maximize the chances of winning our present and
future battles. But there are a lot of battles to wage, and many left-leaning
judges to convince or overrule. But all
may not be lost…yet! You still may be
able to do ‘something’ to save what is left of your freedom. Consider
augmenting your monthly bill paying routine by becoming a member and/orsending a check
to the NRA so we
can keep the heat on the LCAGV in every possible court of law and public
opinion.

Your
first job is to educate – yourself and your connections. Get smart on how gun
control laws have failed to prevent violence, how gun rights have created no
harm, and how laws like LCAGV’s Frankenstein Monsters will
have zero impact on human life and safety.

Finally, take somebody who has never fired a gun to the range.
Fear is the primary emotional tool the other side has. But once people have
handled firearms and see how their safe and sane neighbors use them, fear
vanishes and is often replaced by a sense of empowerment. In California’s
Alameda County for example, the local NRA Member’s Council holds four “Fun
Shoots” every year where the public can come and try their hands at everything
from .22 rifles to those dreaded “assault weapons.” These are sell-out events
and nearly everyone who comes and gets coached by the NRA safety instructors,
then shoots a few guns (all brought by the chapter members) goes away puzzled
by the propaganda they hear from the LCAGV (even San Francisco reporters think so).

It’s funny how the truth will set you free my friend! So what are you doing at your range?

How long will the battlefield be confined to the courts before it
spills out onto the streets??? The
question is will the hypocrites and criminals like Leland Yee be ar med?

If
you agree, please share these posts with your friends, family, and
coworkers. The only way to defeat the
lies and propaganda of a government and its controlled media is to spread the
truth.

Thanks
for listening – de Andréa

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